[jdom-interest] Getting mixed content as string?

[Alex Chaffee]

Remind me again, what method should I call to get the string

"<a href='http://www.jguru.com/'>jGuru</a>, the rockingest Java
portal, is ready for action."

from the source element

<item>
<title>jGuru Launches</title>
<url>http://www.jguru.com</url>
<date>December, 1999</date>
<description>
<a href='http://www.jguru.com/'>jGuru</a>,
the rockingest Java portal, is ready for action.
</description>
</item>

?

I tried item.getChild("description").getSerializedForm() and it didn't
work (some unimplemented exception i think); tried getContent() and it
skipped the <a> element.  getMixedContent(), of course, returns a
List, not a String, and I'd have to write a recursive loop to convert
it.

If it doesn't work, then I'd like to propose something like
getTextContent() or getStringContent() or getMixedStringContent() that
would work as desired.


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